Tech Stack
Responsibilities
- Work directly with large-scale, messy transaction data to build transformations, filters, and statistical frameworks to extract reliable economic and credit-cycle signals.
- Develop forecasting models that quantify household financial conditions, credit dynamics, and broader economic trends, emphasizing real-world performance and interpretability.
- Identify leading indicators and turning points across liquidity, spending patterns, credit behavior, income stability, and other elements of household financial resilience.
- Build methodologies that detect changes in economic regimes and risk conditions based on high-frequency data.
- Produce rigorous backtests, scenarios, and real-time indicators that inform internal strategic decisions and external-facing research.
Benefits
- Health Insurance
Culture
Cross-Functional TeamsMission-DrivenDiverse LeadershipInclusive Hiring
Requirements
Required: PhD in Economics or equivalent quantitative field
Regions: Canada, Europe, Uk, Us
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About Plaid
Industry: fintech
Size: large
Plaid builds the tools and experiences that developers use to connect financial accounts to applications, powering tools for millions of users across 12,000 financial institutions.
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